Show A t OF ut Tho The Society of ot Friends commonly known as Quakers In Western In ran and 1 Illinois has Issued nn nit open letter lotter to brethren of ot other othor do 10 nominations upon them to lift lItt up their hearts to God and their voices S Sto to plea men to check this greed upon tho the public treasury which Is 18 manifest In inthe tho the growing grafting spirit of militarism I Tho The Friends I ns nil Is Ia well known deny deity I the tho lawfulness s of war sync whether do clo cloten ten or offensive and refuse to take tako any Ony part In military affairs They Thoy hold holet that the thc blood of ot tho the Savior was the thelast thelast last drop that that was to tobo tobe ibe bo be spilled tor tho human race and anet that It Is the Hit duty of ot His Ills to so sote testify te both bOlh by words and nets acts On this point opinions differ The great grent majority of ot professed ed Christians cannot view nil all wars from this stand standpoint standPoint point They Thoy believe that soldiers of tho the croen can enn go wherever tho the ser see service vice of the tho country COUll try calls them m and that they tl cy should bo tc ready to lay Iny down their lives on an the altar of ot particularly In the detente detent of at home and families or for Dr th maintenance of ot lib liberty liberty erty and the thc overthrow of or tyranny un In d r the tho th heel of which tallow may bo to death nut although nit hough opinions are divided a on the tho lawfulness of an en appeal to arms there con cp be bo no doubt that militarism If it permitted to become borome the tho ruling force Coree of or n nation Is a 11 curse curtle The rhe open letter of ot time the Friends attention to this fact It quotes M hi tho editor of ot the Libre Libro Parole on oil th tM tho effects of at militarism m In France OB tie follows follow s military service far from it 1 t school of ot morals Is a school mool of ot u nad n nI di bauchi ry 1 I deem bom the tho universal mil mull military till service one ammo OIl of tho iso t It U lit sometimes one of the saddest B t me rae ne clOses that our country cpus calls upon us to lifar luar 1 I know of or few row more than liOn that of ot tho the Tens neil ant taken tram his hili field or his hIli 10 and thrown for Cor three years Into tho the All these sons eons of ot tin tb soil who would 1 In time limo have married some woman and Ryn hn to France l a n anew new rate raCe of strong and wholesome men return to homes home nil All more morl r loss lost all nil notions of ot ro for or lost the tho taste for their former honest homiest work ly liy lythe bythe the tl omo and meaningless fiu of ot the barracks Father Forbes a Roman nom an Catholic pro lat Is also niso quoted quotel He lie rays fays The Th family In Prance France gives to the army a young oung man clean elan In mind and body bol T th the army riveR gives back OOk that same young Oung man steeped to 10 the tha very ar lips In suit ring from disease n o and vices Ices The Th authors of the tho open letter fur Cur further timer ther claim tb to know on on good gool that the ih United States soldiers now or erl In military operations In the tho Philippines are being to in the corrupting Influences that seem to fol tol follow tollow follow low militarism everywhere When Whon tilt the Concomitants of wart wan are arc considered It ItIs ItIs ItIs Is Impossible to deny that the Friends have hac a n strong etron ease case Total abstinence from militarism m It cannot he bt doubted would bo be a C radical and effective euro cure i ot of nil all Its it evils And ApO yet 01 the th will have Hi his de devotees devotees ns as long hug as men and women nfl pa n mire arid and suaan them In the work of or r their hands han s And they ther will not always stop atop consider whether they tho are re en engaged en engaged I In a II just cause causo or not I |